India, Feb. 7 -- A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay high court complaining that several government websites have been contaminated with malicious programming codes which redirect users to betting websites. The PIL, filed by Ruzbeh Dossabhoy Raja, an information technology consultant and visiting law professor at the University of Mumbai, also highlights the inadequate monitoring of the government cyber infrastructure.

The petition, filed through advocate Ajinkya Udane, listed 20 government department websites contaminated with malicious programming code which redirects the users to betting websites to collect their personal information.

"Such activities could lead to the misuse of information for offences li...